UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Oct. 18, 2006
Democrat Sorry For Saying 'Slavishly'
Rep. Steny Hoyer Used Racially-Charged Word Referencing Black Senate Candidate
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Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md. (AP)
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Maryland Senate candidate, Michael Steele, seen here, took offense to Rep. Steny Hoyer's, D-Md., remark that he "slavishly" supports the GOP. (AP)
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As reported by MSNBC Tuesday, Hoyer criticized Cardin's Republican opponent Michael Steele for what Hoyer called-- quote -- "a career of slavishly supporting the Republican Party."
Steele is black, and yesterday called the description racist and "the height of arrogance."
"It goes to just the sheer craziness of some in the Democratic Party who think they can use racist terms and infer things about me just because I'm an African American Republican," Steele said, reports The Washington Post.
The head of the National Black Church Initiative, the Reverend Anthony Evans, also condemned the remark.
Hoyer is the Number Two Democrat in the House of Representatives. In a statement yesterday, he said he should not have used the description. He added that if Steele did take offense, none was intended.
Steele began running a TV ad Tuesday that highlights the money Cardin has earned from drug, oil, and insurance companies despite his insistence that he is not beholden to special interests, the Baltimore Sun reports.
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See all 45 CommentsThis sure sounds racist to me.
As usual the Dems lie and cry.
Another racist Jane?
Remember, the GOP of the early 1960s was a bastion of WASPishness. Even Jewish people felt uncomfortable back then with Republicans as they should now with the Hitlerite Democrats. It was a false notion, egged on by corrupt types like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, that Blacks had a home in the Democratic Party. Of course that meant a Barrack Obama had to sit uncomfortably close to an unreconstructed racist like Bobby Byrd.
Today however, J.C. Watts, Colin Powell, Mike Steele, even Lynn Swann the great USC footballer are bringing Black Americans back to the Party of Lincoln - where they belong - not the party of Poll Taxes, of Lynch Laws, of Hoses and Firebombs and White Sheets.
please wipe the spittle courtesy of your fellow democrats off that uniform. You're embarassing those who, like members of my family serve honorably and not bitterly.
and that goes for the lunatic clown radiob - he of the straightjacket fame, or the bozo who calls itself Huskerarmy - are you sure you didn't mean Hitlersarmy?
If a Republican says something insensitive, the baboons and nazi enthusiasts go ape. If a dumb dem like Hoyer or Byrd does it, they convienently hibernate. As usual clueless, dumb, and gutless.
Here's a test. Please try to explain, without patronizing condesention, why blacks vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Here's a clue... Blacks know where their best intersts lie. Your "fascist" and "racist" hooey is nothing more than empty projection, and anyone with half a brain can see it for what it is.
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adj.
1. Of or characteristic of a slave or slavery; servile: Her slavish devotion to her job ruled her life.
2. Showing no originality; blindly imitative: a slavish copy of the original.
Disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham parlayed his seat on the House Intelligence Committee into at least $70 million in business for two contractors who in turn paid him millions in bribes, an investigator hired by the panel has concluded.
The report sees a need for law enforcement and national security agencies to examine Cunningham's dealings with foreigners. "While our review has not identified any national security breaches resulting from the Cunningham conspiracy, we are aware of dealings that that Cunningham had with certain foreign nationals," it said.
One congressional official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the full report has yet to be released, said Stern was particularly interested in two trips Cunningham made to Saudi Arabia in 2004.
There are many ways to interpet the meaning.As in being slavish to money,corruption and greed.
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of a slave or slavery; servile: Her slavish devotion to her job ruled her life.
2. Showing no originality; blindly imitative: a slavish copy of the original.
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They know how to shriek - especially as they grovel after Massa Byrdie.
And now this laughable guy Hoyer - from the border state of Maryland. No wonder why, despite Calypso Harry, more Intelligent Black people are voting GOP. Better a party that gave us Lincoln than one that gave us the Klan, the Jim Crow Laws, the Poll Tax and the Lynch law.
-JULIANNE MALVEAUX
Linda, Linda, Linda,
Racism is a much bigger deal when you are on the receiving end. It's a matter of who's ox gets gored. It may seem the same but, it can be like the difference between capitol and lower case.
... There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President
Quoted from 1915!!!!
America will never be forgiven for what the europeans sold to America as a means for free labor. most of our ancestors were not here at that time but because we have white skin, we get blamed for the slavery issue. it's dead. we don't need a reminder of how things were here two hundred years ago.
we should try to ignore racial epithets coming from ignorant people and then move on. the bigger a deal is made from it the hotter the fire is.
lets bring our people home from iraq, afghanistan, and all other "peace" keeping assignment. we need peace HERE.
thank you for reading,
linda shelton
cincinnati, ohio
If one had the "If you're not for us, you're against us" mentality of the right, one would slam CBS for their obvious conservative bias for publishing this story in the first place. *** conservative media...
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=slavishly
There is nothing in the definition that would indicate a racict remark.
Ants follow each other "slavishly".
The wimpy "yes man" slavishly follows the boss.
Insert thumb in mouth, close lips, blow - HARD. Get your head outta your #*$ and think.
Mr. Hoyer, I'd retract my apology, you have done nothing wrong.
Pax.
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